Ancient germanic tattoos
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Tattoos on Scythian Chieftan from Burial Mound No. 2 at Pazyryk The Pazyryk were closely related to the Scythian people. In 2003 after three other tattooed Ice mummies were discovered, the Pa…
Click image(s) to see the larger version(s). The tattoo image comes from the Flickrstream of JJ and Special K and is licensed by Creative Commons. The original tattoo comes from the body of the so-called Ice Maiden, a woman from the 5th century BCE buried in the Pazyryk region of what is now Siberian Russia. Hers is a unique burial as she is a lone woman buried with great honor and grave goods; her headress alone takes up a third of her coffin which was made of the sacred larch tree. She was…
Herodotus describes the Scythians living in the area north of the Black Sea about three thousand years ago. According to him they traced their ancestry directly from Zeus and the river nymph Borysthenis, daughter of the river god Borysthenes, the union of which produced a son named Tagitaos and he in turn had three sons with a human woman, demigods, who were the progenitors of the three Scythian tribes.
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